infinate redirect loop on stash setup

Question

Currently running Stash 3.7.1.  I'm attempting to validate  Bitbucket Server 4.12  prior to an upgrade.  We have several scripts using the REST API and need to qualify those against 4.12. before we upgrade.

I have installed 4.12. into a new directory, and have created a new (empty) butbucket-home directory for purposes of the evaluation.  I have started 4.12 with the default internal database.  The server is up and running, and listening on a distinct port.

I am now unable to connect to the server to run the final setup due to a redirect loop. I have tried IE, Chrome and Firefox browses and get the same result on all 3.  I have cleared cookies, and all other browser data with no progress.

Will appreciate some guidance on this.

Michael

http://stash:8081/setupGET http://stash:8081/setupUpgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8HTTP/1.1 302 Found Redirect to: http://stash:8081/setupServer: Apache-Coyote/1.1 X-AREQUESTID: @NSM4YUx1019x7131x0 Location: /setup Content-Length: 0 Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 16:59:41 GMTGET http://stash:8081/setupUpgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8HTTP/1.1 302 Found Redirect to: http://stash:8081/setupServer: Apache-Coyote/1.1 X-AREQUESTID: @NSM4YUx1019x7132x0 Location: /setup Content-Length: 0 Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 16:59:41 GMT

michael_giroux · Accepted Answer

Problem solved.  I use a bash script to set environment variables before launching Bitbucket server.  The script was setting CATALINA_HOME incorrectly which prevented the application from running correctly.

Removed the command that sets and exports CATALINA_HOME and the Bitbucket server started correctly and I was able to access the setup page.